In die Sonne schauen

A secluded four-sided farmstead in the Altmark. For over a century, these walls have breathed the lives of the people who live here—their tastes, their existence over time. LOOKING TOWARD THE SUN tells the story of four women from different eras—Alma (1910s), Erika (1940s), Angelika (1980s), and Nelly (2020s)—whose lives are eerily intertwined. Each of them spends her childhood or youth on this farm, but as they navigate their own present, traces of the past are revealed to them—unspoken fears, repressed traumas, buried secrets. Alma discovers that she was named after her deceased sister and believes she is destined to follow the same fate. Erika loses herself in a dangerous fascination with her disabled uncle. Angelika balances between a longing for death and a zest for life, trapped in a fragile family system. Finally, Nelly, who grows up in apparent security, is haunted by intense dreams and the unconscious burden of the past. When a tragic event repeats itself on the farm, the boundaries between past and present begin to crumble.

With *IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN*, Mascha Schilinski has created a grand, epoch-making film—a grand tour through the finest intricacies of these four women’s emotional worlds. IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN also addresses our present and our rapidly changing experience of history and the shift between eras. A film that burrows deep into our perception and stages the sensation precisely where feeling is most fleeting: in the rapidly fading sense of time.